Improvement im cotton-bale ties



UNITED STATES PATENT @rrron FREDERIO COOK, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,766, dated July 15, 1873 application filer June 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIG 000K, of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, have invented an Improvement in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to make a bale-tie of metal, with a notch or out in one side of the band, into which the looped end of the band is inserted sidewise, and a bandseat is formed by turning up the end of the band where the notch is, and stamping or punching out a piece of the end at same time as the notch is made, so that the bandseat is formed to receive the other looped end of the band after the bale has been compressed, and the band turned over into a loop at the point where the fastening is to be made.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the two ends of the band. Fig. 2 is a section through D E of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aview of the tie with the band bent square, the strain being received on the edge of the band instead of the end.

N0 buckle is required. The looped end A, on drawings herewith, is passed sidewise over the other end of the band B into the notch O, and onto the band-seat formed on the end of the band B. F is a rivet to hold the end B in place; but the tie may be made without the rivet F, in which case the expansive force of the bale against the bent end G and the strain on A will hold the end H and band B together.

The form and angle of this tie may be varied, and the end B may even be at a right angle, as at Fig. 3, with the edge H of the band, as I have previously patented, but without the notch G. In this case the loop A G is prevented coming oft by the lip J, which is raised enough to allow the upper portion A of the looped end to slip under it after the loop has entered the notch or cut 0; or the end of the band may be simply bent back on itself about half an inch, and the looped end A slipped under to prevent it coming oft, instead of the lip J being used for that purpose.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The cotton-tie made, as shown and described, on theband or on a separate piece rivet-ed on.

2. The side out or notch in the band to receive the looped end sidewise.

3. The notched edge, so arranged that when the looped end enters it the looped end laps over a double thickness of the band and holds the bend end in position by the expansive force of the bale.

4:. The raised lip J in the band.

. FREDERIO COOK.

Witnesses:

S. S. CARLISLE, D. G. WIsE. 

